Victims commemorated on 28th anniversary of Sivas massacre
Families of the victims of a 1993 fire at the Madımak Hotel in Sivas commemorated their loved ones in the city on the 28th...
Turkey orders detention of 146 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 146 people including former civil servants, active duty and dismissed military and police...
Spouse of missing educator appeals to Kyrgyz president to find her husband
Reyhan İnandı, the wife of Turkish-Kyrgyz educator Orhan İnandı, appealed to Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov on Thursday to find her husband, who went missing...
Family of missing Kurdish woman starts sit-in at Tunceli courthouse
The family of Gülistan Doku, a young Kurdish woman who went missing on January 5, 2020, started a sit-in on Thursday in front a...
Turkey sets clock back 10 years on women’s rights, says Amnesty International
Turkey has set the clock back 10 years on women's rights by withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention and has also set a “terrifying precedent,”...
Turkey’s top court says jailed former lawmaker’s rights were violated
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that Turkey violated the rights of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker and...
LGBTQ+ inmate raped, beaten and threatened in Turkey’s Eskişehir Prison
Memiş Akbaş, a LGBTQ+ man incarcerated in Eskişehir Prison, was raped, beaten and threatened, according to a recent report by the Association of Civil...
Turkey using press accreditation to pressure critical journalists: RSF
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned Turkey’s Presidential Directorate for Communications (CİB) for using press accreditation to increase pressure on the media.
The directorate has...
OECD calls on Turkey to implement key reforms to boost fight against foreign bribery
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Working Group on Bribery has called on Turkey to urgently implement key reforms to boost the fight...
Reform package making prosecution of child abusers difficult approved by parliamentary committee
The Turkish Parliament’s Justice Committee has approved a new judicial reform package which stipulates that instead of taking victim testimony, tangible evidence will be...
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